As your heart beats, it pumps blood from the left ventricle through the aortic valve and into the aorta, your body’s largest artery. The aortic valve is made up of three triangular flaps of ...

THE human aortic valve consists of three cusps made of relatively inelastic, muscle-free material about 0.15 mm thick. It opens and shuts about once a second, and withstands a pressure difference ...

DAVID MONTGOMERY: Aortic stenosis is a tightening of one of the four major valves of the heart. The aortic valve is particularly important because the aortic valve is the gateway to the rest of ...

Middle-aged adults who need an aortic valve replacement fare better with mechanical devices than with the valves made from ...

Kennesaw State University mechanical engineering professor Philippe Sucosky has earned a prestigious American Heart Association (AHA) Institutional Enhancement Award to advance his study on bicuspid ...

What is aortic valve replacement? In aortic valve replacement surgery, your aortic valve is replaced with a different valve—mechanical or tissue. This procedure may be necessary if you have a valve ...

Firstly, aortic sclerosis is an antecedent to clinically significant aortic valve obstruction and, secondly, it acts as a marker of increased risk of cardiovascular events. This article reviews the ...

New 20-year data show a survival rate of 90% with few repeat surgeries after this complex operation that can only be ...

Stenosis can happen above or below the aortic valve, or the valve itself may be narrowed ... This is a special ultrasound that uses sound waves to view and make pictures of a developing baby’s heart ...